Age of Aquarius
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Cookin' in the North
First out I gotta give a shout out to BARACK OBAMA and his awesome inauguration speech that Liz and I watched via youtube from the great country of Thailand. We are headed into Laos tomorrow but I just wanted to give a little summary of the last of the Northern Thailand shenanigans.
CHAING MAI
We were only in Chaing Mai for about 2 days, but during that time we managed to cook 6 different dishes of delicious Thai food and eat ourselves into varying degrees of food comas. We decided to test our culinary skills at the Bann Thai cooking school. It was pretty rad. I pounded out some red curry for use in the regional specialty, Chaing Mai noodles which was a delectable combination of cooked and crispy noodles smothered in red curry coconut milk an chicken. It was sooooo good, and I didn't even light anyone/thing on fire.
Shopping at the local street market for ingredients for cooking class
So happy over my chicken in coconut and lemongrass and ginger broth soup.
Oh yeah, I made this!
I also learned how to make spring rolls, phad thai, and fried bananas rolled in fresh shredded coconut for dessert. Afterward they gave us a little cook book with all the recipes so hopefully ill be able to duplicate when I get back home.
CHAING RAI
Huge golden clock tower from the center of Chaing Rai
Our hostel we are currently in is looking like its getting THE BEST award for N. Thailand. We had a wonderful bus ride up with a little mint green suited bus attendant, got cold water, oreos, and an American movie dubbed in Thai Our hostel has the ol cabin feeling with a cute little garden outside. There are hot water showers, and two 2 month old puppies running around with their little curly piglet tales wagging so hard their feet come off the ground with each swipe. Its so cute.
Women from the Long Neck Karen Tribe in Northern Thailand.
The golden rings they carry around their necks are 12 pounds of solid brass. We got to hold one (not attached to a neck) and it's so heavy. This tribe came over as refugees from Burma to Thailand about 15 years ago. Anyway it was very interesting to see this tribe of people who believe that a long neck denotes status of beauty. The differences in what is considered cultural beauty across just this country has been very intriguing to me. They make these hand woven scarves by old school loom style in gorgeous multi-toned colors. I got an emerald/teal and hot pink/red scarf.
Monkeys from the Monkey Caves that didn't try to infect me with their rabies
We also got to see the Monkey Caves with hundreds of monkeys scavenging around. They really like to eat Popsicles and Coke-a-cola. Haha.
Ummmm, does this cat have a Hitler mustache?
I saw this cat on the last stop of our tour today and I just thought this was funny. I swear I didn't take a sharpie to this cat. It's too legit to quit.
SHOW ME MORE PICS!!!
We were only in Chaing Mai for about 2 days, but during that time we managed to cook 6 different dishes of delicious Thai food and eat ourselves into varying degrees of food comas. We decided to test our culinary skills at the Bann Thai cooking school. It was pretty rad. I pounded out some red curry for use in the regional specialty, Chaing Mai noodles which was a delectable combination of cooked and crispy noodles smothered in red curry coconut milk an chicken. It was sooooo good, and I didn't even light anyone/thing on fire.
Shopping at the local street market for ingredients for cooking class
So happy over my chicken in coconut and lemongrass and ginger broth soup.
Oh yeah, I made this!
I also learned how to make spring rolls, phad thai, and fried bananas rolled in fresh shredded coconut for dessert. Afterward they gave us a little cook book with all the recipes so hopefully ill be able to duplicate when I get back home.
Huge golden clock tower from the center of Chaing Rai
Our hostel we are currently in is looking like its getting THE BEST award for N. Thailand. We had a wonderful bus ride up with a little mint green suited bus attendant, got cold water, oreos, and an American movie dubbed in Thai Our hostel has the ol cabin feeling with a cute little garden outside. There are hot water showers, and two 2 month old puppies running around with their little curly piglet tales wagging so hard their feet come off the ground with each swipe. Its so cute.
Women from the Long Neck Karen Tribe in Northern Thailand.
The golden rings they carry around their necks are 12 pounds of solid brass. We got to hold one (not attached to a neck) and it's so heavy. This tribe came over as refugees from Burma to Thailand about 15 years ago. Anyway it was very interesting to see this tribe of people who believe that a long neck denotes status of beauty. The differences in what is considered cultural beauty across just this country has been very intriguing to me. They make these hand woven scarves by old school loom style in gorgeous multi-toned colors. I got an emerald/teal and hot pink/red scarf.
Monkeys from the Monkey Caves that didn't try to infect me with their rabies
We also got to see the Monkey Caves with hundreds of monkeys scavenging around. They really like to eat Popsicles and Coke-a-cola. Haha.
Ummmm, does this cat have a Hitler mustache?
I saw this cat on the last stop of our tour today and I just thought this was funny. I swear I didn't take a sharpie to this cat. It's too legit to quit.
SHOW ME MORE PICS!!!
posted by Juli at 3:52 AM
2 Comments:
Your pictures are outstanding!
You may need to come to Bakersfield when you're home and cook some of those delectable Thai dishes for us. Red curry, coconut milk, chicken, & noodles has me drooling down my shirt. Don't lose that cookbook!
Monkey caves, now that sounds interesting. Got any pictures of that.
Love you, Auntie J
Now you can come home and cook for me! So happy cooking school was a success! Miss you really enjoy your updates!
loves
E
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